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Prey

★ 7.2 4K votes 2014–2015 2 seasons · 6 episodes Ended ITV1
British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 8/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 8/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Rosie CavalieroDaniel JillingsJohn SimmAdrian EdmondsonBenedict WongPhilip Glenister
Starring
Rosie CavalieroDaniel JillingsJohn SimmAdrian EdmondsonBenedict WongPhilip Glenister
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About

"A framed man's desperate, morally messy run from justice"

A police detective's life implodes when he's accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn't commit, forcing him onto the run while trying to clear his name and protect what's left of his family. The show plays out as a tense, twisty British crime thriller, heavy on paranoia and moral compromise as the walls close in from both the law and the real culprits. It's tightly paced across a short run, favoring dread and slow-burn tension over action, carried mostly by its lead performance and the queasy feeling that no one can be trusted.

Watch it for

the lead performance holding together a tense, paranoid fugitive story.

Maybe skip if

you want a longer, sprawling mystery rather than a tight, breathless chase.

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All Seasons

Season 12014
7.793232h 16m
We follow the story of a DS Marcus Farrow, a well like policeman on the run, wrongly accused of murder, desperate to clear his name for the sake of his family. Narrowly escaping police custody Farrow becomes an outlaw and begins a high-stakes game of cat and mouse across the city with Acting Detective Chief Inspector Susan Reinhardt. As a wanted killer, Farrow has few allies, however one thing is certain, for the sake of his family, Farrow is prepared to do things he never thought possible. And he won't rest until he knows the truth.
Season 22015
7.064132h 18m
David Murdoch is a middle-aged prison officer; widowed, living alone, he has one grown up daughter, Lucy, who is pregnant. She is his world. When Jules Hope, an inmate at HMP Ravenhill Prison, is taken ill, it’s Murdoch who escorts her to hospital. While Jules is waiting for treatment, Murdoch gets a phone call with an ultimatum that turns his life upside down. If Murdoch wants to see his daughter again, he must break Jules out of hospital and deliver her to the man holding Lucy captive. If he talks to the police, Lucy will die. Murdoch knows he has no choice but to comply. But when the plan goes awry he is forced to take matters into his own hands. Pursued by DS Susan Reinhardt (Rosie Cavaliero), Murdoch finds himself in a race against time to evade the law and save his daughter’s life.

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Rosie Cavaliero ADI Susan Reinhardt, DS Susan Reinhardt
Daniel Jillings DC Gibbons
John Simm DS Marcus Farrow
Adrian Edmondson ACC Warner
Benedict Wong DS Ashley Chan
Philip Glenister David Murdoch
MyAnna Buring Jules Hope
Craig Parkinson DI Sean Devlin
Kevin Harvey Jeff Crabtree
Ray Emmet Brown Tony Reinhardt

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